So Senator Clinton has never heard of a Red Bull...

[Seen the light]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/hillarys-dream.html

Another surprising tidbit: Despite the 19-hour days she puts in on the trail, she's apparently never heard of the energy drink Red Bull. Asked if she's ever had one, she replied, "No. What is it?"

The 22-year-old college student in me finds this laughably sad, but maybe I'm way off here.

What do you think?

[Colobo]

1. This is sad... very sad... and she can't dealwith a coffee machine either.

[Bluebear]

49. This is "SAD"? - oh brother.

[JoFerret]

77. It's just terrible

I can't even think of voting for her now. I shall have to vote for Nader.

[Bluebear]

80. Tragic,

Just tragic.


:rofl:

[JoFerret]

83. It proves she is totally unfit

I used to like her but with this she has proved she is a total rethug-rovesque evil person. I cannot bear to even think of her now.

[DJ13]

2. Sounds elitist

:shrug:

:rofl:

[kid a]

31. the post? or hillary' s out of touch reality of the real world

[vegetabletasty]

79. You don't know what the meaning of elitist is

Elitist means having a bad opinion about people who aren't rich.

Listen to your logic: Hillary Clinton does not know what Red Bull is, therefore she looks down on people who aren't rich.

Not quite a logical statement there.

[davidinalameda]

3. shades of Papa Bush and the grocery store scanner

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. she runs on the blood of puppies and toddlers

no need for red bull.

;)

[NEDem]

5. Oh great, now she's gonna do photo op doin Jager bombs

[Seen the light]

7. LOL!

That would actually be pretty hilarious.

[msallied]

9. ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[OhioChick]

28. ......

:rofl:

[quantass]

6. Tomorrow she will be bragging up Inventing it..you'll see.

[Speck Tater]

8. If my grand daughter didn't drink Red Bull,

I never would have heard of it either. I don't drink canned or bottled synthetic carbonated beverages, so I never even look at them in the store. I'm strictly a water, tea, fruit juice and V8 kind of guy. Oh yeah, and beer. :)

[jeff30997]

52. Beer ?

What is that ? Never heard about it. :shrug: :beer:

[grantcart]

10. Krataeng Daeng originally from Thailand eh no big thing she didn't know

[ampad]

11. Good Lawd

Could you imagine her behavior if someone slipped her a red bull. I mean that cackle of hers would be fierce!

[Uben]

12. If you hadn't said......

....what it was, I wouldn't have had a clue. But, I'm a helluva lot closer to her age than yours! I'm not familiar with any of the so called "energy drinks" except the one they call coffee.....and I'm very familiar with that one. Is Red Bull young people's coffee?

[quakerboy]

18. um... coffee and a cold shower in a can.

With a pretty horrid taste. So it really is like coffee.

[msallied]

19. It's basically legal meth in a can.

Has about 4 times the caffeine as a cup of coffee and tastes like carbonated cough syrup. It's a very popular drink mixer as well.

It's vile shit, really. I stay far far away from it.

[quakerboy]

13. Any chance she has ADHD

with the sometime side effect of alternate drug reactions, and thus no reason to know about caffeine options?

Or maybe she is just a Monster gal.

[Hoof Hearted]

14. If I was 22, I might think that was important.

fortunately, I'm not.

[PurityOfEssence]

60. "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde

Only fools and solipsists think that others who don't know what they do are irrelevant.

We're not hiring "The Fad King" (a character in "Wag the Dog") we're hiring a statesman who can deal with the world's problems.

The profound vapidity of that statement just makes me gag.

[Radical Activist]

If you were 22 you might not be so obnoxiously condescending.

[msallied]

15. People like her live in a vacuum

For the last 20 years or so, she's been having people tell her about the world for her.

[Lucky 13]

16. Hillary has a Red Bull for the first time!!

Hillary BEFORE Red Bull:



Hillary AFTER Red Bull:



Hillary COMING DOWN off Red Bull:




Fin.

[Beacool]

17. This was worthy of a post????????????

I've never had a Red Bull either. Is it a mandatory right of passage?

Please grow up!!!!

[Seen the light]

21. Oh please

It was more light-hearted than anything.

Not everything has to be so serious on DU.

[scheming daemons]

22. You're an elitist... just like her. Common people have heard of it......

[Beacool]

37. Of course I've heard of it!!!!!!!!!!

I just never felt the need to overcaffeinate myself.

[msallied]

40. There is a difference between having heard of it and never drinking it.

She'd never heard of it, hence the OP.

[Colobo]

27. Every young American knows what it is.

[msallied]

34. This is true...

She's not terribly hip... No wonder the young'uns love Obama.

[DangerousRhythm]

35. It's not like it's some underground drink...

There are commercials for it all the time on TV. It's all over grocery stores and even news stories warning people not to drink too much of it.

[Lucky 13]

32. As worthy as any of the other garbage posted here.

[seriousstan]

20. Senator Obama has never heard his own pastor's sermons.

"And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me."
"I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother"

If this is how he treats his "family", how do you think he will treat the nation.

After he threw his white grandmother under the bus, the Rev should have seen it coming.

[msallied]

23. ...

:puke:

[seriousstan]

24. His disloyalty to family and friends is indeed sickening.

[msallied]

30. No, your post is.

As well as your disloyalty to your party.

[seriousstan]

33. Since when did Obama embody the "party"?

[msallied]

36. He embodies our values a hell of a lot more than

DLC Hillary.

[seriousstan]

56. Oh, I forgot. Vote Obama or you are disloyal to the party and a racist.

I thought I'd help you with the Obamassiah mantra. 3 days ago Obama's spiritual mentor was simply espousing what everyone knew what is true and an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition, now what he said is "outrageous", "ridiculous", "offends me", without excuse and "contradicts what I am and what I stand for". And all the Obama worshipers fall in line. So is Obama attacking the black church now or does he simply not know anything about the African-American religious tradition?

The Obama lies are really stacking up. I think if he told you all the stand on your heads you would.

[msallied]

64. Your news is old, irrelevant, and inaccurate

First of all, he came down on what Wright said about America acting as terrorists and spreading HIV. There is nothing wrong with him distancing himself from those statements. He claimed he had given Wright the benefit of the doubt before that.

And by the way, any Democrat who embraces DLC values and enables Neocons is not a real Democrat in my eyes. They are a sell-out to the right-wing and don't belong in our party.

[Beacool]

42. It looks like HE needed a Red Bull!!!!!!!!!!

He seems to have been asleep for 20 years at church.........

:rofl:

[msallied]

45. Given your use of exclamation points

I'm beginning to doubt your claims that you avoid the stuff.

[newmajority]

25. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary drinks Rockstar instead of Red Bull

considering how she's kissing the asses over at FAUX Noize, and Richard Mellonhead Scaife, would Michael Weiner Savage be much of a stretch?

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[rodeodance]

29. Yes, you are a sad creature. You dig for anything to smear her.

[msallied]

38. Do you need a hankie?

[MadBadger]

39. How does she not know her state's MLS team is the Red Bulls?

[SoxFan]

47. Good point

Actually, they play over at Exit 16-W, NJ, but close enough...

[MadBadger]

48. But they took the NJ off when they renamed them the Red BUlls.

[SoxFan]

65. True

That whole "New York/New Jersey" thing always looked foolish. I remember the World league having a team called the New York/New Jersey Knights, and I thought it ruined a perfectly kick-ass logo!

[AlCzervik]

41. Am i the only one here that has never tried a redbull or the other enegry drinks?

i see people drinking them everywhere, even kids my daughter's age, she's 13 and i can't help thinking that maybe kids shooting be pounding them down like they're soda. I already drink a lot of coffee and i think a redbull would send me bouncing off the walls.

So are the good, are they addictive and is there something else in there besides caffeine?

[leftofcool]

46. Not me. Those things are nasty. Don;' use them

[AlCzervik]

59. i'm not tempted, just curious really and surprised i see so many young kids drinking them.

[msallied]

50. There are some herbs and a ton of sugar

And they are highly addictive. 4 times the caffeine than a cup of coffee. I'd never let a kid drink them. They are bad news... I'm not one who is typically affected by caffeine in general, which is why I don't bother to drink coffee. But that stuff gives me heart palpitations.

[AlCzervik]

61. yeah, i'll pass on them but thanks for the info.

[swishyfeet]

51. Red Bull works.

I drink a lot of coffee but it really doesn't do much for me. Red Bull gives you wings. O8)

And I support them and "Torro Rosso" for their Formula 1 sponsorships.

[AlCzervik]

63. i drink an entire 12 cup pot of coffee a day, i'm thinking a redbull would have me up

all night cleaning stuff that's already clean.....ie mothers little helpers.

[msallied]

66. or meth. LOL

[AlCzervik]

72. for real, "Ask me about my meth lab, now offering franchises!"

[newmajority]

57. Some drinks contain B vitamins and other herbal supplements

Milk thistle extract, which detoxifies the liver, is in some of them. Reason being is that the original marketing idea behind these drinks was not "energy drinks" as much as "hangover remedies" or even "sober up enough so you can drive home from the bar". Which invariably led to the invention of the "Jaeger Bomb" (Jagermeister & Red Bull - tastes like cough syrup so drink it fast)

[AlCzervik]

68. yuck, like Jaeger isn't already horrible enough! i only drink when i know i'm not driving

anywhere, i won't even have ber if i have to drive so needless to say the only happy mojito time for me is usually friday night at home, 2 mojitos and nite nite.

Thanks, you all are as usual a wealth of info.

[tammywammy]

82. I like the Monster Energy drink

The LoCarb one.

If I'm extra tired in the morning and I don't think just a cup of coffee with do, I'll pick one of these up.

[swishyfeet]

43. I'll give her a pass. Secret service probably doesn't care for 7-Eleven

...trips to get her caffeine buzz, but it doesn't help with the "in touch with regular Americans" line much either.

[leftofcool]

44. She drinks healthy things instead of tin in a can?

Good God! Who in their right mind would put that stuff in their mouth?

[msallied]

55. The OP stated that she hadn't HEARD of Red Bull

Not merely that she didn't drink the stuff. I'm very surprised she'd never heard of Red Bull. The stuff is about as ubiquitous as Coke.

[newmajority]

67. Some energy drinks are healthier than others.

Read up on some of the better ones here: http://taurinerules.blogspot.com/2006/07/all-natural.html

[JoFerret]

53. I think you are a bit off

You are 22. Most people are somewhat older. Some of them will have heard of RB.

But it is not an obligation. Right?

[msallied]

58. It's not an obligation, but it's just kind of odd.

Nothing wrong with observing that.

[JoFerret]

62. Not odd at all

we all seem to live in isolated bubbles these days in spite of all the access to "common" culture.

[msallied]

71. If she hasn't heard of Red Bull

then let's hope she's heard of some type of energy drink. The stuff is everywhere.

[JoFerret]

75. I bet there are many things that are "everywhere"

that you have not heard of.

There are plenty that I haven't. I get surprised every day. It might have to do with not watching TV.

[msallied]

78. It's more likely to do with

not doing your own grocery shopping, cooking, or not going to any social event that isn't pre-arranged by upper-echelon elites.

[JoFerret]

81. very funny

.

[Lena inRI]

54. The devil is in the details, SeentheLight. . .

. . .You picked up on the REAL, UNMASKED part of Hillary that is very telling to me as well.

As though she is arrested in her younger 90's time warp. . .Xeroxing. . .clueless on Red Bull when anyone who ever cashes out of a CVS or local mart would see this drink stacked at the register.

Hillary must have everything done for her by her aides or housekeepers. .. .while she obsesses over networking 24/7 with politicos for there endorsements and donations. . .some BUBBLE she operates in.

Oh yeah, both Samantha and Randi got it right about this ambitious snob!

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[smalll]

69. What's SAD is the fact that you guys actually drink the stuff. Even worse, when it becomes a mixer:

Vodka-and-Red-Bulls and such other poisonous new concoctions of the late-middle 00s decade. All thanks to you people. Swell.

[msallied]

73. Ick... tell me about it...

Although I see a lot of 40-somethings drinking vodka energy drinks in my neck of the woods.

[slinkerwink]

70. I thought she WAS drinking Red Bulls to keep up her energy. Why else would she look so wired?

[Radical Activist]

74. Just like Bush the 1st not knowing what a supermarket scanner was.

Part generation gap. Part isolation of her status.

[msallied]

76. Bingo.

If anything it's a reminder that higher-up politicians are really nothing like normal folk. It's all a bunch of pretend.

[smalll]

87. What you're missing is that the scanner was just a new thing, Red Bull is a BAD new thing.

The scanner was just an advance in technology. At worst, it was neutral (although I remember a year or so part-time as a supermarket cashier BEFORE scanners, when you had to punch the prices in yourself, and at least I was a LOT faster than scanners are!) But Red Bull is a BAD new thing --

1)tastes absolutely icky, way too sugary (high fructose corn syrup?)
2)pumps you up with all that sugar added to multiple-double-espresso strength unnatural caffeine boosts that no-one really other than long-haul truckers really need
3)plus of course, a good bulk of the kiddies' Red Bulls is part of their partying (Vodka&RB-kind-of-stuff)-- lots of issues, perhaps one of the major being --
4)stands to reason, when you mix this RB poison with heavy drinking, nasty-drunks and fights bloom like wildflowers! (Note: I'm not anti-drinking at all. I was amazed at the anti-shot horror at Hillary; what, so drinking shots with our beers suddenly makes us deviant social criminals?)

[Radical Activist]

94. You think its bad but you still know what it is.

Yes, it is about the fact that she doesn't know about it.

[smalll]

96. Yes, but if a candidate DOESN'T know about Red Bull --- since it's a Bad New Thing,

it can, if necessary, be quite fairly spun to score some social wedge issue points. It would be like not knowing about Ryan Seacrest. You can actually turn it into a positive.

[madrchsod]

84. dam she`s really out of touch...shit i know this....

[milkyway]

85. Neither has McCain.

[Zhade]

86. I'm surprised, given its ubiquitous advertising.

NT!

[DesertRat]

98. Where is it advertised?

Seriously. I watch a fair amount of tv and listen to the radio and have never seen or heard an ad for it.

[KingFlorez]

88. I'm sure a lot of people haven't heard of it

It's no big deal, who really cares if she's never heard of it?

[cornermouse]

89. I don't know what it is.

I like Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew and haven't ever really felt the need to try something that is probably more expensive. Also that "this is the hip thing to do so I gotta do it too" mindset hasn't ever had that much impact on me.

[doc03]

90. Who the f--- cares. n/t

[BenDavid]

91. this is really leaping at something....hell, I never heard of AMP

until I saw dale earnhardt jr promoting this drink. So what if HRC never heard of red bull. what you obama folk are so pissed about is she said she did not know what it was....maybe you were hoping she would say that's a beer right......Best damn answer any politician can give. I don't know....

[newmajority]

92. AMP's just Mountain Dew with some extra crap in it.

Red Bull has commercials all over TV. Probably even on Hillary's favorite network, FAUX Noize.

[BlackVelvet04]

93. Oh good LORD....

who cares?

[Dogmudgeon]

95. She isn't a 22-year-old college student

So she's not up on pop culture and products that 20-something guys like. That's laughably sad?

20-something guys tend to like Red Bull. It's the "Dude Demographic". They also tend to like Barack Obama. And they tend to dislike middle-aged women -- a lot.

If Obama's supporters are seriously picking at nits like this, they are in more trouble than they know.

--p!

[DesertRat]

97. I find it laughably sad that you think this is an issue

60 year olds are typically not into Red Bull. I'm in my 50's and am only aware of it because I have kids in college. In fact, many people my age and older try to avoid heavily caffeinated drinks because of high blood pressure, insomnia, etc.

When do candidates have the time (or interest) to learn about the latest fads marketed to college-aged people?

This is a NON-ISSUE.